pleonastic
Example Sentences
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The title’s pleonastic fourth word is the giveaway.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
While Humphrey reeled garrulously from one position to another, Nixon glided over issues with skillfully pleonastic evasions, often taking no stand at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They returned back again to the same city from whence they came forth": the five words in italics are redundant or pleonastic.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
The same idea is represented by the pleonastic Eng. messmate, the second part of which, mate, is related to meat.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
We have, therefore, to trace the rise and development of what may be forcibly expressed by the apparently pleonastic phrase human ecclesiasticism.
From The Last Reformation by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith
